Hollywood What If Chapter 310
Sihe release of The Revenant, the cast has obviously had to promote the movie. Kazir Grey and Tom Cruise uood that they would be busy for the few months. They have to promote the movie while meeting with Academy members, basically begging for their votes.
It may sound bad, but it was true that the oute of the Oscars would be determined by the members of the Academy.
So while the cast of The Revenant was traveling bad forth between ada and the Uates, their respective PR teams began their work.
The PR teams were paid by Kazir and Tom, they ied a lot of money just for the nominations. They k would be impossible to pete at the Oscars without spending money.
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Martin Ariel sighed as he stretched his sore back. He was too old to move, but he couldn't sit still all day without doing something. So he decided to check his mail.
He was surprised to see that someone had actually sent him a thick letter.
"Ah, is it that time already? It's still November."
Martin Ariel was an old veteran director who retired a decade ago. He had been nominated for the Best Director Award in the 60s. Sihen he has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sces (AMPAS). He was still part of the ittee that voted on the nominations. He had the power to list the movies he wao nominate.
Every on a while he would get some packages from Hollywood. He khat this kind of thing was not allowed because it was an obvious bribe.
However, the PR teams usually identified these as nothing more than "gifts". Of course you had to accept the gifts, why are you so bitter?
Gifts were a on thing, and everyone had an agreement to keep quiet about it. At least they received gifts every year.
Martiuro his house and decided to open the "gifts". It was four tickets for The Revenant, which would expire in two weeks.
"As expected..." Martin shook his head. Giving money was not allowed, but sending gifts was allowed, especially gifts reted to the nominated movie.
"Well, my grandchildren might like it. These tickets are for The Revenant? Hmm, Directrey? Who is this person? Never heard of him. Maybe I will ask my grandchildren about this movie."
Spoiler alert, Martin's grandchildren were all fans of Kazir Grey, and they were happy that Martin had given them four tickets.
Martin was old, and he was happy to see his grandchildren happy. So he decided to vote for The Revenant to get it nominated. Of course, it also depends on how the other ittee members would vote for The Revenant.
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"This is iing..." Kazir muttered after sipping a hot coffee in the m.
He was in an expeel room because he had a local TV interview st night.
While reading the neer, Kazir noticed some iing news.
Apparently, News Corporation had decided to buy Marvel ics. As for the details, Kazir had no idea how the iatio.
Such a thing had never happened in his previous life, and he uood that he was one of the factors ie.
Instead of being acquired by Walt Dishis time Marvel ics was acquired by News Corporation.
"Is this one of the reasons why 20th tury Fox is keeping quiet?"
So far, four major studios have tried to acquire Grey Pictures. Only Universal Pictures and 20th tury Fox remained silent.
Universal Pictures had an obvious reason, Grey Pictures never really liked the pany.
But 20th tury Fox was different. Grey Pictures and 20th tury Fox were very close. In fact, the current distributor of their films was 20th tury Fox.
'I think Tom Rothman is going to leave Fox this year or early year. Someone will take over as CEO of 20th tury.'
With this acquisition, Kazir realized that 20th tury Fox could start its own ematiiverse with Marvel ics... Though there were some problems.
Most of the known Marvel characters were in the hands of Grey Pictures. Marvel ics would have to buy back the chts if they wao start a successful ematiiverse.
Or Marvel ics could create another batch of superheroes and use them as movie characters, but this method had a low ce of success.
The reason Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the X-Men were successful in the first pce was because they were famous.
Kazir stood up and looked out the window. The city was very foggy, even though it was early in the m.
"Was Washington this foggy, or perhaps this very city was a foggy one?" He wondered.
Suddenly his cell phone oable started ringing.
At first he thought it was Angelina Jolie, because his girlfriend liked to call him in the m when they were apart. He ughed and grabbed the phone.
His smile faded when he realized it was not Angelina.
"Hello, Salvatore? Is there a problem? Huh, me? Yes, I'm in Washingtht now... Okay, I'll be ba Los Aoday."
His expression became serious. It seemed he was wrong this time. 20th tury Fox was still ied in Grey Pictures, they were just going after the weakest link first.
Kazir heard from Salvatore Barlowe that Tom Rothman wao talk to him personally. They wao iate with him about Grey Pictures. From the looks of it, News Corporation was the ohat wao make this venture happen.
Grey Pictures and 20th tury Fox could do a stock s and both sides would make a deal to distribute the films.
Kazir tacted Tom Cruise and the rest of the cast and told him he had to return to Los Aom Cruise didn't have a problem, but Kazir had to promise to attend at least one party a week. You have to unicate with people, especially Academy members, to get nominated.
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[Author's Note]
[I 't remember if Martin Ariel is a real person or an inal character. Anyway, I'm here again to promote my novel because my brother's exam is ing up and we have a bill to pay... I apologize if I have to beg people oero help me pay our bills. I'm a shameless person and I have to do it because I have to. You may think I'm using my brother as an excuse to siphon off money, but I'm not. I'm not doing it for me, I'm doing it for the betterment of my family.]
[I won't lie, I'm actually proud of myself because I helped fix our roof and our house. Also, our house now has tiles and a shower... If you're a Filipino (poor Filipino to be precise), you'll uand hoy we are whenever we have a ce to use a shower. And now our house has shower too! I shower every day now! I'm really happy about this little success.]
[Haha, gawang squatter. Tuwang tuag may shower!]
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